There are a lot of prickly pear cacti in and around Zababdeh. Often they are put to good use as living fences to keep goats and sheep in/out of areas. In this picture, you can see a what looks like a fruit, but it is part of the pad. While the cacti here do make bunches of bright red fruit, this fruit-in-pad development is, according to our neighbor from Gaza, really rare. As a kid, he and his friends would get very excited when they saw one--and then pick it to take home (unintentionally assuring the rarity).